Develop a Business-Aligned GIS Strategy for Utilities

Geospatial data is siloed across organization; source of truth not recognized.
Leadership fails to comprehend the value of GIS and its significance in grid modernization.
Limited GIS resources and skills prevent innovation and advanced GIS use cases.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

The global GIS market is set to nearly double in four years, reaching $1T dollars by 2028 with electricity, gas, and water utilities accounting for 18% of that market (PwC, 2025). Your organization needs to prepare to harness the maximum value through a right-sized GIS strategy and roadmap.

Impact and Result

Create a business-aligned GIS strategy to support organizational goals.
Enable the adoption of advanced GIS capabilities.
Find productivity efficiencies through streamlining GIS processes and resources.

Develop a Business-Aligned GIS Strategy for Utilities Research & Tools

1. Develop a Business-Aligned GIS Strategy for Utilities – A four-phase methodology to help utility organizations develop a GIS strategy to meet future aspirations, no matter where you are in your journey.

This blueprint accelerates a utility’s GIS strategy development by evaluating six strategic themes and kick-starting the basic foundational elements.

2. GIS Current and Target State Assessment Tool – An Excel tool to evaluate the current and target state maturity of your organization’s GIS capability across six strategic themes.

Use this tool to assess the current and target state maturity of your organization’s GIS capabilities, highlighting your strengths and weakness and areas of improvement. Leverage the output results to identify initiatives for your strategic roadmap.

3. GIS Initiative Prioritization and Roadmap Planning Tool – An Excel tool to prioritize your GIS initiatives and the creation of a GIS strategic roadmap.

This GIS planning tool is meant to help you prioritize recommendations based on the gap analysis. Recommendations can be added to this tool and prioritized based on scoring criteria. A predefined scoring criteria is provided but can be edited to meet to your organization’s requirements.

Transform GIS into a strategic utility platform.

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What Is a Blueprint?

A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.

Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.

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Get the help you need in this 4-phase advisory process. You'll receive 8 touchpoints with our researchers, all included in your membership.

Guided Implementation 1: Establish Current and Target State

Call 1: Introduce and level set on GIS strategic themes.
Call 2: Conduct current and target state assessment via tool.

Guided Implementation 2: Conduct Gap Analysis and Identify GIS Initiatives

Call 1: Review and align results, highlighting greatest gaps.
Call 2: Identify list of GIS initiatives.

Guided Implementation 3: Form or Advance GIS Foundations

Call 1: Define GIS mission, vision, and guiding principles.
Call 2: Review and complete GIS governance, metrics, and KPIs.

Guided Implementation 4: Build Your GIS Roadmap

Call 1: Define initiative prioritization criteria and complete roadmap.
Call 2: Finalize roadmap and close out.

Author

Bevin Chau